Distinct neural substrates for deductive and mathematical processing

Brain Research

Volumn 1243, Issue , 2008, Pages 86-103

  Kroger, James K ^a   Nystrom, Leigh E ^b   Cohen, Jonathan D ^b   Johnson Laird, Philip N ^b  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortex; fMRI; Frontal pole; Logic; Math; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; EMOTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LOGIC; MATHEMATICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; WERNICKE AREA;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL PROCESSES; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; THINKING;

EID: 55649093956     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.07.128     Document Type: Article

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